October 1, 2025Fatima Majid was not just the only one-person team in the top 10 award winners at a recent National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA) cyber competition, she was the only student team. Yet she placed ninth out of 51 teams, most of them comprising working professionals.
May 15, 2025A 91°µÍø team of Systems and Industrial Engineering (SIE) won awards for developing a training system to assist people working toward their drone pilot license.
October 4, 202491°µÍø Police’s Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) teams supported the Virginia Department of Emergency Management (VDEM) deployment to Appalachian Power in Ivanhoe, Virginia, over the weekend. The primary mission at Ivanhoe—between Carroll and Wythe counties—was to inspect two dams, built in 1912 and 1913, as well as the power distribution lines affiliated with them.
May 8, 2024George Mason Systems Engineering and Operations Research students took first place in the Systems and Analytics Track of the Sage Memorial Design Competition and first place in the STEM Track of the Patriot Pitch Competition with their plan to deliver supplies to a hard-to-reach island in the Chesapeake Bay.
November 2, 2022Five of Mason Police’s Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) Teams were assigned to provide provide aerial security overwatch for Sunday’s Marine Corps Marathon and launched multiple drones into the airspace above Arlington County.
October 18, 2022Assistant Professor Vijay Shah from the Department of Cyber Security Engineering at 91°µÍø's College of Engineering and Computing, teamed up with colleagues in Arlington, Virginia, to build drones that monitor and improve the safety of firefighters in action.
